slide makeovers

May 19, 2011

3 Tricks When the Picture Won’t Fit

Sometimes your picture fits awkwardly on the slide, leaving an unfinished-looking section of slide. What do you do? Here’s my three favorite tricks. 1. Use a […]
May 6, 2011

3 Stephen Few Graph Makeovers. Which is Your Favorite?

I’m a big Stephen Few fan and have learned a ton about designing graphs, tables and information dashboards from his books and his graph makeovers. But there was one […]
April 27, 2011

Do You Design Slides More Like Nancy Duarte or Guy Kawasaki?

Nancy Duarte (author of Resonate and Slideology) and Guy Kawasaki (author of Enchantment) have very different views of presentation design. Whose opinion do you connect with […]
February 9, 2011

Obama’s Speech…One Small Step for Slides

In a previous post I blogged about President Obama’s State of the Union speech, where he actually used SLIDES! On one hand, I think it improved […]
April 29, 2010

Spaghetti Slide Makeover

PowerPoint is like a unicycle. I can look pretty silly on a unicycle if I don’t get some lessons. So whose fault is it if I keep falling on my axle? The unicycle’s fault? Or mine?
July 30, 2009

Slide Makeover: Pie Chart into Persuasion

We often produce slides with graphs but fail to communicate clearly because we focus on the data and not on the message. The data is not […]
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